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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
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Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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